Need SGI Classic Cmp Help

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Nov 20 15:08:11 2000

Jeff <THETechnoid_at_home.com> wrote:
> If not root password then use another you got but set system date in
> firmware to a date PRIOR to the creation date of the user you are logging
> in as then log in as that user. The system will panic because your
> username/password are valid but can't exist yet because of date and will
> bomb to single-user mode.

The only "Unix" OS I've ever seen keep track of the date a user was
created was SCO, and it was part of a horrible misfeature that allowed
the sysadmin to delete a user *permanently*, so that the user name could
never again be added to the system.
Received on Mon Nov 20 2000 - 15:08:11 GMT

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